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英文原文：Understand · 英文原文：Explanation
英文原文：How records are connected
英文原文：What CityScroll means when it links two records, how to inspect that claim, and why some obvious relationships stay unlinked.
英文原文：What a connection claims
英文原文：CityScroll connects records the city publishes separately — a notice to the agency that issued it, an agency to a vendor it awarded work to, a rule to the duty behind it. Every one of those connections is a claim, and every claim has a basis you can read.
英文原文：The claim is always narrow. It says these two published records refer to the same thing, and here is what made that identification. It never says one record caused the other, and it never says anyone did anything wrong.
英文原文：How the identification was made
英文原文：Open 此关联如何建立 on a connected record and you get the basis rather than a score. The labels distinguish three kinds of evidence.
| 英文原文：Basis | 英文原文：What it means | 英文原文：How much weight it carries |
|---|---|---|
| 通过已发布记录匹配 | 英文原文：The two records carry the same identifier the publisher issued — a procurement identifier, an agency code, a project number | 英文原文：The strongest kind. The city's own key did the joining |
| 记录关联匹配 | 英文原文：The records were matched on their content, such as an organization's name, rather than on a shared identifier | 英文原文：Weaker. Names are written inconsistently, and different organizations share names |
| 经人工确认 | 英文原文：Someone reviewed the pair and accepted it | 英文原文：As good as the review, which is why it is labelled rather than hidden |
英文原文：The same panel names the relation itself — "issued rule", for instance — and links the official source the records came from. If a connection matters to you, that link is the thing to open.
英文原文：The connection has an address
英文原文：A connection you have opened stays in the address of the page. Copy the address and you can send someone the record with that specific claim already inspected, rather than telling them where to click. It is the same habit as keeping the address of a search: the link carries the state.
英文原文：Why an obvious relationship can be missing
英文原文：A connection that plainly exists in the world can still be absent here, and none of these reasons means the relationship is not real.
- 英文原文：No shared identifier was published. Two records can describe the same contract without either one carrying a key the other has. There is then nothing exact to join on.
- 英文原文：The name is written differently. A vendor filed as one spelling on a notice and another on a payment record may not resolve to one organization.
- 英文原文：The city has not published the joining record. Some links exist only inside an agency's own systems, or are released in a form that cannot be joined.
- 英文原文：The match was not good enough to show. A connection that could not be classified is left off the page rather than shown wrapped in hedges. An absent connection is not a denial that the relationship exists.
英文原文：What a connection is not
英文原文：A connection is not a finding. Two records being linked is not evidence that money moved improperly, that an official acted wrongly, or that a decision was made because of the other record. A named awardee on a contract does not mean that vendor is currently open to subcontractors, and a vendor appearing beside an agency repeatedly is a count, not a conclusion.